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Some of the movies I like

Films are, for me, the highest art form. Movies make us feel alive. They enrich the human experience. To rephrase Hitchcock, movies present life in all it’s glory and despair, minus the dull, boring bits. In the last seven years, I’ve watched a lot many movies. I’ve had the fortune to watch both the hidden gems & the usual suspects of world cinema, and have relished the time I spent glued to my screen. I have a simple way to judge whether the movie I watched is great or not:

I must not fall asleep while watching it, howsoever tired I feel,

It must entertain, uplift, & be life-affirming, &

Each re-watch must reveal something new I hadn’t seen the first time.

Some of my favourite movies, genre-wise, but not rank-wise are:

Comedies:
Some Like It Hot
Monty Python and Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Back to the Future 1
To Be Or Not To Be
A Fish Called Wanda
Sideways
Bringing Up Baby
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
Andaaz Apna Apna
Golmaal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
Chupke Chupke
Lage Raho Munnabhai
Tootsie
Borat
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Big Lebowski
Shaun of the Dead (zombie comedy)
Silent Films of Chaplin and Buster Keaton
The Lady Eve
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Ninotchka
My Cousin Vinny
Odd Couple
Sabrina

Noir:
Body Heat
L A Confidential
Night Of The Hunter
In A Lonely Place
The Big Sleep

Adventure:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Apocalypse Now

Mystery:
Chinatown (1974)
Memories of Murder
The Secret in their Eyes
Blue Velvet
Witness For the Prosecution
The Manchurian candidate 1962
Most of Hitchcock’s works(e.g. Psycho, North By Northwest, Strangers on A Train, Rear Window, Notorious etc.)